ISRAEL - IRAN - SYRIA - HAMAS - HEZBOLLAH - WWWIII?

[...] ...Mr Blair has being criticised publicly and privately by ministers and senior backbenchers, and has antagonised most members of the EU as well as the United Nations secretariat.

It emerged yesterday that he ignored not only the advice of the Foreign Office but foreign affairs specialists in Downing Street, who argued that the Israeli offensive was counter-productive and favoured a call for an immediate ceasefire.
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I just find if hard to believe that Hezbollah has that much rockets or fighters to account for all the deaths of Lebanese citizens and destruction civilian infrastructure even if it is a fact and not a excuse that Hezbollah uses citizens and civilian communities as shields to turn the world against Israel.

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• More than 841 killed and 3243 wounded
• Many bodies still unfound under wreckage
• 1/3 of casualties are children & majority civilians
• More than 913,760 displaced
• Complete blockade of air, sea & land transport
• More than 60 bridges and 70 roads destroyed
• Beirut International airport, all national
airways and major Lebanese ports bombed
• Electrical power plants bombed
and related fuel tanks destroyed
• Complete destruction of all radars
• More than 20 gas and fuel stations destroyed
• Factories (food industries), warehouses, dams,
schools, TV & radio stations, churches, mosques,
hospitals, ambulances & civil defense centre
• Thousands of civilian houses destroyed
• Estimated cost of infrastructure hit exceeds
US$ 2 billion
• Reported Israeli use of Internationally-banned
bombs
• More than 10 thousand tons of heavy oil polute
more than 80 km of sea coast

(from the previous link)

About the Qana tragedy; it appears that at least one site of a bombing there was no Hazbollah rockets or fighters at the time.

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As the Israel Air Force continues to investigate the air strike, questions have been raised over military accounts of the incident.

It now appears that the military had no information on rockets launched from the site of the building, or the presence of Hezbollah men at the time.

The Israel Defense Forces had said after the deadly air-strike that many rockets had been launched from Qana. However, it changed its version on Monday.

The site was included in an IAF plan to strike at several buildings in proximity to a previous launching site. Similar strikes were carried out in the past. However, there were no rocket launches from Qana on the day of the strike.

source

I believe that Israel (and others I assume from reading of opinions) believes that killing civilians and destroying civilian communities is a small price to pay to protect themselves.

It really does not matter if Hezballah is using it's citizens as human sacrifices or shields or not. The point is that it is Israeli bombs which are killing innocent Lebanese citizens and destroying Lebanon as a whole. Israeli lives are not more valuable than Lebanese lives no matter whose fault it is that they are in harms way. To keep things in perspective, remember that this all started only because two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped.

I agree, Mr. Hinteler. It is important to save the children. That is why I am sending my Congressman a letter asking him to give notice to Hezbollah that they can not place thier military equipment, especially rocker launchers, anywhere near dwellings where women and childen are living!!!

It is worth repeating here what Golda Meir is alleged to have said:
"The Arab Israeli conflict will continue as long as the arabs hate jews more than they love their own children."

I wonder what would happen if the Israelies were to come to hate the arabs more than they love their own children.

Whether you shoot at me or my children from a soldier's trench or from a child's nursery, I will shoot back until either you stop shooting, you kill me and my children, or I kill you.

To stop the carnage in Lebanon, stop Hezbollah from shooting at Israelies, because the Israelies will continue to shoot back at the Hezbollahs whereever they are, until the Hezbollahs stop shooting at the Israelies, or until all the Israelies are dead, or until all of the Hezbollahs are dead.

I will try, Mr. Walter Hinteler, but I am afraid that even my Congressman cannot persuade the Hezbollah to stop purposely placing their weapons close to the dwellings of women and children!

Reminds me of the 500 that were supposedly massacred in a Palestinian camp by Israel....but recently the UN final report released tallied 20 something deaths instead of 500. Granted deaths are deaths, lies are lies and fog of war blah blah blah.

Revel finds it hard to believe. Revel finds it hard to believe a lot. I ask Revel to find a video of Israelis cutting the throat of a reporter like the savage fanatics did when they murdered Mr.Pearl, an innocent reporter.

You have got to get this through your head, revel. The Israelis are the descendants of the people, the group, who were gassed and incinerated in the ovens of the death camps during World War II. The fanatic Islamists can moan and groan all they want. The Israelis will never let those fanatics kidnap their troops or bomb their villages without exacting a brutal punishment.

As Olmert said: It will be very very painful. It has been since 10 Lebanese have died for every Israeli.

BernardR wrote:

Revel finds it hard to believe. Revel finds it hard to believe a lot. I ask Revel to find a video of Israelis cutting the throat of a reporter like the savage fanatics did when they murdered Mr.Pearl, an innocent reporter.

You have got to get this through your head, revel. The Israelis are the descendants of the people, the group, who were gassed and incinerated in the ovens of the death camps during World War II. The fanatic Islamists can moan and groan all they want. The Israelis will never let those fanatics kidnap their troops or bomb their villages without exacting a brutal punishment.

As Olmert said: It will be very very painful. It has been since 10 Lebanese have died for every Israeli.

Again, take a look:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6162397493278181614

There've been what appear to be nazi rallies or thinss indistinguishable therefrom in Lebanon since the hezbully takeover. The impression I get is that Lebanon itself and not just the hezbullies was in need of some sort of a major lesson in life.

Foxy, remove the blinkers, do.
These rockets are like a peashooter compared with the Israeli military capability.
Lebanon is being smashed up, huge (additional) refugee problems are being deliberately created; and if the rockets stopped tomorrow, would Israel? Apparently not, if we take the Gaza comparison for example.